Michaela Meijer

Michaela Meijer
Meijer 2019 at the Birmingham Grand Prix
nation	Sweden
birthday	30th July 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
size	172 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.83 m (August 1, 2020 in Norrköping )
society	Örgryte IS
Trainer	Gustaf Hultgren, Thomas Kyöttilä
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Youth World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships silver Tallinn 2015 4.50 m  Youth World Championships silver Brixen 2009 4.10 m
last change: August 3, 2020

Michaela Meijer (born July 30, 1993 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish pole vaulter .

Career

In 2009 Michaela Meijer won the silver medal at the World Youth Championships in Brixen . With a jump of 4.10 m, she missed the gold medal of her compatriot Angelica Bengtsson by 22 centimeters.

Meijer also qualified for the Junior World Championships in Moncton , but retired there in the final without a valid attempt. In 2011 she took part in the Junior European Championships , but could not manage the required height in qualification to compete in the final.

Between 2012 and 2013 Meijer played almost no competitions due to a knee injury. In 2014 she represented Sweden at the European Team Championships in Braunschweig . In 2015 she finished ninth in the final of the European Indoor Championships and won the silver medal among her compatriot Bengtsson at the U23 European Championships . At the World Championships in Beijing she was able to qualify for the final and was eliminated there without crossing a height.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she took fifth place with 4.55 m. However, she failed at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 4.45 m already in the qualification. In 2017, she again achieved fifth place in the final at the European Indoor Championships with a jump of 4.55 m. At a meeting in Gothenburg in July 2017, she improved Angelica Bengtsson's Swedish record of 4.70 m by one centimeter and thus qualified for the World Championships in London . There, however, she was disappointedly eliminated without a jumped level in the qualification .

Web links

• Michaela Meijer in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Double gold medal celebration for Sweden and Great Britain in Bressanone - Day Four - Evening report ( Memento of July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , July 11, 2009
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